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[Snuggles]

If you manage to kill one of those gold guards in Vivec early in the game it is basicly a free ride from there. Sell his armour and weapon to the little demon guy in Caldera, level up, kill another guard, sell, level up, etc.

I always pull a heist at Ghostgate early in the game. I break into a room with a ton of glass and ebony items and cast recall to return to Caldera so I can sell the goods to creeper. It nets me a shitload of cast for training.

I'm so ready for a replay.

 

[KaiserBecks]

When I try to open steam, all I get is this message:

Anyone else having this problem? It ran fine a couple of hours ago, but I had to restart my computer (bluescreen).

 

[Foliorum Viridum]

What's with no Skyrim price on the UK store?

 

[StuBurns]

I'm on fine.

What's with no Skyrim price on the UK store?

That is strange. The news pop ups did say we could pre-purchase today, but we can't.

 

[Forkball]

Probably have to join a vanilla server.

That's so stupid. HEY GUYS OUR COMMUNITY IS ALMOST DEAD SO LET'S PUT IT ON SALE AND HAVE A FREE WEEKEND BUT YOU CAN'T PLAY MULTIPLAYER LULZ

 

[chixdiggit]

Tempted by the Quakecon pack. Too bad I can't gift the games I already have.

 

[Dug]

Tempted by the Quakecon pack. Too bad I can't gift the games I already have.

Whhaaaaaaaat? I wanted to give someone Morrowind GOTY

 

[Zafir]

What's with no Skyrim price on the UK store?

Yeah I noticed it as well. Theres an advert on the rotating banner about the pre-order offer(Free TF2 hat). However when you click, there's no option to pre-order.

 

[Nabs]

played a bit of brink with some friends. not bad.

 

[Prezhulio]

i'm sure this is gonna be/has been asked a million times...but does steam charge you up front when you pre-order?

 

[Dog Problems]

i'm sure this is gonna be/has been asked a million times...but does steam charge you up front when you pre-order?

Yeah.

 

[Anilusion]

I hope they add World of Tanks and Quake Live to steam. The only decent f2p games.

 

[Zzoram]

i'm sure this is gonna be/has been asked a million times...but does steam charge you up front when you pre-order?

I believe they do. I usually wait until the day before to pre-order. It's not like they'll run out of copies lol.

 

[Foliorum Viridum]

That is strange. The news pop ups did say we could pre-purchase today, but we can't.

As long as it's not just me then ^_^

 

[CarbonatedFalcon]

i'm sure this is gonna be/has been asked a million times...but does steam charge you up front when you pre-order?

yes.

Disappointed with that Skyrim price - not even a pre-order discount. Doesn't really matter though since the game is going to be Steamworks (and fairly large in size) so a retail copy will do me just fine. Probably be able to find a good deal on a retail copy as well.

 

[Stallion Free]

played a bit of brink with some friends. not bad.

I liked the visuals a lot.

 

[Goon Boon]

If you buy a complete pack for gifting, can you gift each game, or do you have to gift the whole pack?

 

[Volcynika]

If you buy a complete pack for gifting, can you gift each game, or do you have to gift the whole pack?

You're gifting the pack to one person.

 

[Goon Boon]

You're gifting the pack to one person.

Urgh, thanks. I wish extra giftables was mandatory instead of only for valve games.

 

[epmode]

Wait, since when is Skyrim $60 on PC? God I hate this generation.

 

[StuBurns]

I don't understand the Rage pricing. In the US it's $60 like a console game, in the UK it's £30, which is PC game price.

EDIT: In fact £35 is more like normal PC price often.

 

[Corky]

Wait, since when is Skyrim $60 on PC? God I hate this generation.

Don't worry, this generation has brought us other things. Like Steam sales if you get what I mean.

 

[epmode]

Don't worry, this generation has brought us other things. Like Steam sales if you get what I mean.

Good point. Skyrim was practically an instabuy at $50 (or $45 with the usual 10% discount), I think I'll wait for a sale now. Especially with the DLC parade being included in the GOTY package.

Thanks, Bethesda!

 

[Zzoram]

I'll wait until Skyrim GOTY is out before I bother to pick it up, and even then I'll grab it for $30 at most. After playing Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Fallout New Vegas, I realized that these games are too aimless and filled with excessive quantities of boring quests for me to enjoy.

 

[nexen]

Skyrim is worth $60 to me if Oblivion and FO3 are anything to go by.

 

[MNC]

Weekend Deal - Spiral Knights

WTF Valve! Weekend deal of a F2P game.

I said WTF as well. And it's a free weekend, too :lol

 

[Zzoram]

The "free" is apparently you get some in-game items free that normally costs money.

 

[epmode]

Skyrim is worth $60 to me if Oblivion and FO3 are anything to go by.

Honestly, I'd feel better about paying $60 if the console version was $70. Fuck price parity when there's no console licensing fee. Cash grab total.

 

[Gvaz]

Skyrim is worth $60 to me if Oblivion and FO3 are anything to go by.

Skyrim is worth $20 to me if Oblivion and FO3 are anything to go by.

Now if Skyrim was like New Vegas and Morrowind, that's another story.

 

[Salsa]

We need confirmation on RAGE being steamworks or not already. Need to find out if i could get it elsewhere cheaper.

 

[nexen]

Skyrim is worth $20 to me if Oblivion and FO3 are anything to go by.

Now if Skyrim was like New Vegas and Morrowind, that's another story.

Our tastes diverge then.
FNV was good, but I liked FO3 much much more overall.
Morrowind was great, yeah. I'm not sure how I would rank Oblivion vs Morrowind.

 

[Echoplx]

Skyrim is worth $20 to me if Oblivion and FO3 are anything to go by.

Now if Skyrim was like New Vegas and Morrowind, that's another story.

I usually don't agree with you but this is truth.

 

[Gvaz]

Oblivion and FO3 to me were basically "STOP THEIF! YOU'RE BREAKING THE LA-" *Crashes*

New Vegas was like:

 

[Zerokku]

I usually don't agree with you but this is truth.

Was just about to say this.

 

[Forkball]

Oblivion and FO3 to me were basically "STOP THEIF! YOU'RE BREAKING THE LA-" *Crashes*

New Vegas was like:

New Vegas is the crashiest game I've ever played. Still great, but DAMN.

 

[Palette Swap]

I don't understand the Rage pricing. In the US it's $60 like a console game, in the UK it's £30, which is PC game price.

EDIT: In fact £35 is more like normal PC price often.

It's 50€ here, which is an average price too. It seems only the US PC version commands a premium?

 

[Gvaz]

The most crashes I got in FNV was from the UWRL mod. I think in 80+ hours the amount of crashes I got was able to be counted on two hands, running with mods.

Running FO3 for ten minutes without mods got me crashes every 5 minutes.

 

[Salsa]

Its funny, cause i had not a single bug or crash on New vegas, EXCEPT for the first time i launched it back when it came out, when literally the first thing that appeared on the screen was a bug (the head spining thing). Amazing.

 

[Sanic]

Question about the Brink free weekend: Ok so I tried to join a multiplayer server on Brink, but it says I don't have the required DLC. So I go to the new DLC and click install, but nothing happens. Can I not install the DLC on the free weekend? Does that mean I can't play multiplayer for the free weekend?

Did literally nothing happen, or were you taken to a screen saying that you already had Brink and to open your library, or something to that effect?

I just tried playing it as well; It's quite the mess and I'm glitching all over the place and sliding when I'm not even crouching...

C is slide if you're moving. It has nothing to do with if you're crouching or not.

 

[StuBurns]

Running FO3 for ten minutes without mods got me crashes every 5 minutes.

I was going to buy it when the sale came up, maybe I'll save the cash. I heard someone say something similar about Oblivion a couple of days ago on here too.

 

[Stallion Free]

I was going to buy it when the sale came up, maybe I'll save the cash. I heard someone say something similar about Oblivion a couple of days ago on here too.

I had about 10 crashes over the course of an 80+ hour playthrough

 

[mojiimbo]

Did literally nothing happen, or were you taken to a screen saying that you already had Brink and to open your library, or something to that effect?

When I tried to get the DLC it told me to install the game(even though I have) so I'm assuming the DLC is locked out to those who haven't actually paid for the game.

 

[nexen]

The most crashes I got in FNV was from the UWRL mod. I think in 80+ hours the amount of crashes I got was able to be counted on two hands, running with mods.

Running FO3 for ten minutes without mods got me crashes every 5 minutes.

I have just the opposite experience.
Didn't have any trouble with FO3 that I can remember really. This is with like 150hrs invested in it across two platforms.

FNV crashed like mad, had game breaking scripting issues, and a couple of times I lost all collision with the terrain.

I don't doubt that FO3 is very buggy. I just got lucky, I guess. FNV is definitely super buggy. Which is worse? How could anyone really say.

edit: but I still like both of them lots, which is a strong testament to the games.

 

[Petrie]

Would've been nice if Morrowind was cheaper, I've never played it beyond 15 minutes of the Xbox version and really want to, but can't bring myself to drop $15 on such an old game.

 

[StuBurns]

I had about 10 crashes over the course of an 80+ hour playthrough

That's quite acceptable to me. Maybe I'll take a punt, it'll be cheap anyway.

 

[Gvaz]

I've played on my laptop as well, and in the course of 20~ hours I didn't get a single crash though FO3 didn't crash on the laptop either, I played that less.

 

[Sanic]

When I tried to get the DLC it told me to install the game(even though I have) so I'm assuming the DLC is locked out to those who haven't actually paid for the game.

I wish I would have paid attention to exactly what it said, but whatever the screen was that I was taken to wasn't explicitly clear that I had 'purchased' the DLC, and that I should install Brink. A couple minutes later (it wasn't immediate) Brink started downloading a ~480MB update that contained the DLC.

 

[nexen]

It is pretty much common knowledge that FO3 and FNV are buggy buggy buggy.
They also happen to be very immersive and fun open world RPGs, a genre I can't get enough of.
Honestly if you like the theme and open world RPGs I can't imagine not playing them.

 

[PixyJunket]

So it looks like I'm going to have to play Runespell: Overture all over from the start to get the last achievement (that I PROBABLY earned the first time around).

Not that I mind TOO much, except for the last three battles, ugh.

 

[Sarcasm]

Between FO3 and NV I had one crash in FO3.

And that was user error.